supervention
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“The existing order is complete,” Eliot explains, “before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
Experiments by Hertwig and Eckel seem to show that saliva loses its virulence on the supervention of cadaveric rigidity or putrefaction in the dead body.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
This was occasionally accentuated by the supervention of myelitis.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
The spontaneous supervention of trance relieves the spasm.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
Either the Objective is taken as primary, and then we have to account for the supervention of the Subjective which coalesces with it, which natural philosophy supposes.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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